Sino-Tibetan (was: Re: Arabic and IE)

[Scott DeLancey]

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On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Jim Rader wrote:

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> In reference to Tsu-Lin Mei and Jerry Norman, I think you mean
> Austroasiatic rather than Austronesian, don't you?  The article I have
> a reference to is "The Austroasiatics in ancient south China: some
> lexical evidence" (_Monumenta Serica_ 32 [1976], p. 274-301).

You're right, of course.  But I was sure, when I wrote, and still
am, that I remember someone in those days turning up Austronesian
etymologies as well.  Can anybody jog my memory on this?

Scott DeLancey
Department of Linguistics
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403, USA

delancey at darkwing.uoregon.edu
http://www.uoregon.edu/~delancey/prohp.html